Las asociaciones de inmigrantes como organizaciones no gubernamentales de desarrollo. Entre la agencia y la adaptación institucional

Abstract

Immigrant associations in Spain have progressively become a major player in cooperation development. In this sense, the political arena, favoured by the incorporation of co-development in public policies since 2002, facilitated the design of a framework with new opportunities for immigrant associations. As a result, many of them went through adaptation processes or even organizational hybridisation towards the conversion into NGDO. In this respect and in light of the results of a study about the state of development cooperation entities in Spain, we analyse and discuss whether these processes refer to the capacity for action on the part of immigrant associations, or, on the contrary, if they are framed in mere institutional adaptations facing the new political structure.